NY Times Pitchbot

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20 October 2026 03:33

Michigan senate polls show Abdul El-Sayed in the lead, but they are under-sampling Free Press subscribers in New York, Austin, and Washington, DC. by Jeremy Peters and Bari Weiss

JW Mason

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20 October 2026 03:33

The more or less obvious corollary is that people who talk about the US-USSR rivalry as dispositive about the merits of economic planning vs markets, are implicitly or explicitly saying that political democracy does not matter.

JW Mason

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20 October 2026 03:32

This is a marker for an argument that I may or may not make at more length later. But I think the fundamental fact about the Soviet Union is that it was, for most of its history, a brutal dictatorship. Not that it was a planned economy.

Paul F. Tompkins

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20 October 2026 03:31

The only way you could have watched that video without being absolutely impressed with the matter-of-fact way AES dismantled and exposed that pitiful gotcha is for bad reasons

Stellbound: Stellraiser II

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20 October 2026 03:31

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h